In an instant reaction to the BNP chairperson’s speech at the press conference, Awami League leader Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif on Friday said Khaleda Zia can be brought to book for her attempt to snatch people’s voting rights through resisting the January-5…
Five people were killed and 20 others injured in a triangular collision of a truck, a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Naogaon-Rajshahi highway in Mahadevpur upazila on Friday night.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives arrested three people, including a woman, and seized 45 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from different parts of the port area here on Thursday.
Police in a drive recovered 12 Molotov cocktails from Jatamrul village in Atrai upaizla here early Friday, during the ongoing indefinite transport blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized two foreign made pistols from Gatipara bordering area here on Thursday night.
Police recovered hanging body of a young man from his house at Kazitula in the city on Thursday night.
The Local Government and Engineering Department (LGED) has created employment opportunities for 5,000 poor women in 12 southwestern districts of the country, including Bagerhat, through its Coastal Climate Resilient Infrastructure Project (CCRIP), according to officials.
Hundreds of the river-eroded homeless women have achieved self-reliance to lead better life with family members after their successful rehabilitation under the government’s ‘Asrayan Prokalpo’ in the district.
The Rangpur range of police today awarded 10 of its personnel with medals acknowledging their professional excellence and courage in delivering their services.
A total of 1,075 rural development schemes are being implemented under the Rural Infrastructure Maintenance (Test Relief) programme in Narsingdi district.
A mobile court of Department of Environment in a drive has imposed of Taka 1.60 lakh fine on three owners of brick kiln for lacking of legal documents for running the units, erecting illegal chimney and burning of wood logs…
England’s miserable World Cup ended with a low-key nine-wicket victory over Afghanistan in Sydney.
Sir Terry Pratchett, fantasy author and creator of the Discworld series, has died aged 66, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
America’s chief climate negotiator has warned of the long battle ahead to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Swedish prosecutors have offered to travel to London to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange over sex assault allegations.
Bnp Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on Friday said that the Awami League and its leader Sheikh Hasina posed the main crisis in the country as they by their one-sided decision stopped all paths to free and fair election after passing…
Martin Guptill scored 105 as New Zealand faced and only just surmounted the stern test it wanted before the knockout rounds of the Cricket World Cup, beating Bangladesh by three wickets on Friday to finish pool play unbeaten. Mahmudulluh made…
By Ashfaq Yusufzai Peshawar, Mar (IPS) – A doctor shakes his head in despair as he examines a 10-year-old child at the Jalozai refugee camp, about 35 km by road from Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province.…
Sudhirendar Sharma Mass production, mass consumption and resultant mass monotony has resulted in mass depression. Realizing that the French people would judge him for how happy and satisfied they felt with life during his presidency, Nicholas Sarkozy had hired some…
The High Court on Thursday issued a rule asking the government to explain why directions should not be given to find out BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed and bring him before it. Responding to a petition under section 491…
A Dhaka court on Thursday fixed April 2 to record the depositions of the witnesses in the case lodged with Savar Police Station against 89 BNP leaders and activists including Joint-Secretary General Amanullah Aman and former JCD President Sultan Salahuddin…
Unidentified miscreants exploded a remote controlled bomb on the veranda of the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Court building of Dhaka on Thursday afternoon. Assistant Commissioner Aminul Islam of the Prosecution Department of the court has told newsmen after the incident,…
Death toll in Mongla factory building collapse has climbed to six after rescuers found two more bodies. Many others are feared trapped under the debris of the under construction milling house of army-managed Mongla Cement Factory in Bagerhat. The roof…
A Dhaka court on Thursday once again granted two more months to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to complete their investigation in the General Manzoor murder case. Judge SM Saiful Islam of the First Additional District and Sessions Judge’s Court…
Apart from being the worst victims of corruption in availing of services from different public institutions, a new TIB study reveals that women are frequently used as an instrument of corruption in these institutions. The research shows that women have…
Renewing her claim that law enforcers picked up BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, his wife Hasina Ahmed on Thursday demanded that the BNP leader be returned unharmed. She came up with the demand at a press briefing at Law…
Voicing grave concern over ‘the ’tracelessness’ of her party joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday said the government cannot avoid its responsibility for this. In a statement she said, “An extremely unusual situation has been created…